Not terribly surprising. The Netherlands stands as a peaceful, culture-rich country with values the right wing despises (read: liberal), so best to make shit up and assume that dumbass viewers won't do any fact-checking.

But the crowd initially booed Mr. Romney, who occasionally struck a discordant note, as when he approached a group of fans wearing plastic ponchos. “I like those fancy raincoats you bought,” he said. “Really sprung for the big bucks.” And when asked if he was a fan of the sport, he mentioned that “I have some great friends who are Nascar team owners.”

ilikebeans wrote:Not terribly surprising. The Netherlands stands as a peaceful, culture-rich country with values the right wing despises (read: liberal), so best to make shit up and assume that dumbass viewers won't do any fact-checking.

Please accept this apology on behalf of the millions of Americans who know that Rick Santorum is an ill-informed, xenophobic toolbag who wouldn't recognize an actual fact if it bit him on his frothy ass.

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The GOP only seems crazy when you're look at it through your reality-colored glasses. It makes much more sense when you abandon reason and facts.

Remember Senator Kyl and 'not intended as an actual statement'? or Santorum's team defending the comment about, something about "its what he believes in his heart" (facts be damned!).

Here is a race in California:

Jose Hernandez (D), who is looking to unseat Rep. Jeff Denham (R-CA), has released a video defending his claim that he is in fact an astronaut. A Sacramento law firm asked a judge to block describing himself as such because he left NASA.

Wisconsin's own boy genius sort of apologizes. When he said those generals weren't telling the truth, he didn't mean they were liars.

However, Gen. Martin Dempsey, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, responded to Ryan’s remarks in a Wall Street Journal op-ed, saying “there’s a difference between having someone say they don’t believe what you said versus ... calling us, collectively, liars.”

What's wrong? It really comes down to fear, I think, and the effect that has on rational thinking. Or maybe it's an organic brain problem that expresses itself in typical Republican behavior.

When my mother was beginning to show signs of Alzheimer's, we noticed she become more anxious and fearful, more accusatory toward others and more vocal about racial prejudices, which she had done her best to conquer earlier in life. It was at this time that she became obsessed with illegal immigration, sending thousands of dollars of our inheritance down to racist anti-immigation groups in Arizona, as well as to the National Republican Party and John Thune's PAC. We stopped that as soon as we got control of her finances, and sent letters telling these people to stop preying on mentally challenged elderly.

Reading the arguments of some R-leaners on this forum, I'd have to agree. Arguing from questionable or faulty premises is one thing, but not being able to think in a straight line is way different.

I'm thinking of the recent mini-flap when one of our R's made a false statement, someone showed why it was false, and the R then said he wouldn't agree it was false until the other person changed his mind about something else. What sense does that make?